The year is 1969. Get your motor running. Head out on the highway. The CDC says,

go home right away. The movie Easy Rider.

Hello everybody and welcome to Unschooled.

I'm Mimi Nicholson.

And I am Paul Sheeran. This is a podcast where we watch a film from the AFI top 100 list.

And we see if the film is as good as people say does it hold up and how is it influence the filmmakers of today.

Today we'll be talking about the counter culture classic Easy Rider.

But before we get into that, we are going to go back to last week where we watch

Selvin's travels and hear what you had to say about this great Preston Sturgis film.

I mean, people were universally in love with this film, right Amy?

People adored this film and I actually just realized that we're going from one road trip movie to another road trip movie.

I love it. Yeah, no, Sullivan's has a ton of love. And again, if there was any problem with the full on amount of love that people needed to push on the AFI list,

it's just that people love Preston Sturgis so much.

It made really compelling arguments for every other Preston Sturgis film that they feel like should also be on the list.

I mean, he is beloved. We need at least one seems to be the absolute dead certain consensus.

But it doesn't seem like people have that one figured out. It's a really debatable thing.

You know, we talked about how much we love a lady Eve. So many people echo that.

Also, the miracle of Morgan's Creek is a big one that people really got behind.

It's interesting. There's a lot of passion for people's favorites.

It's it's a it's kind of a rare argument. We don't really always see that in these boards where people are all over the board about what the best one is.

Yeah, absolutely. And it was really fun to hear from people who had never seen the movie before.

People like longtime listener, hello, Tracy Walker, who said that she was really surprised when she finally said down to watch,

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